The Quiet Hand of God
Subtitle: Faith-Based Activism and the Public Role of Mainline Protestantism
Contributors: Robert Wuthnow (Editor); John H. Evans (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: October 7, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780520233133
Subjects: Political activism; Protestantism & Protestant Churches; Religion; Church and state; Religion - Christian Life; USA; Christian Life - Social Issues; Christianity - Protestant; Religion / General; Christianity - Protestanism; General; Protestantism; Religion and politics; United States
First sentence: In his classic study, The Social Sources of Denominationalism (1929), H. Richard Niebuhr denounced the "denominational self-consciousness and inertia" that had frustrated a united ethical witness in American Christianity.